Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-07-15
GENERAL NEWS.


duced the rates on wheat.
The National Association of Teach
ers is in session in Chicago.
Councilman lobe Murray shot ant
killed Mr.. Reeves at Athens, Ga.
The conclave of the Patriarchia
Circle is being held at Milwaukee.
Wood Lopeman is on trial at Osag,
Mission, Kas, on charge of murder
DR.. j. p. SGbolt, editor of Del
Demokrat, Davenport, To-, died yes
terday.
John Bensinger committed suicide
in the st. Charles (Mo) asylum fol
the poor.
A horrible story of the brutal MUIR
der of young lady comes from
Gainesville, Tex.
The Vanderbilt family have arriv-
ed in England OH their yachting tour
around the world.
Gov. Martin is out in denial that
Atchison, Tex, has been financially
ruined by prohibition.
N. X. Fairbanks lard and oil works
at Chicago, were destroyed by fire
last night. Loss, 100000.
A cincinnati man was found dead
near Bardstown, Ky, yesterday. lie
had evidently been murdered.
Miss Louisa Jourdan, of Wool
bridge, N. j., twenty years of age
shot herself in the head. Desponden-
cy.
A child of George Jennings, near
PatOka, ILL.,, was thrown against
wire fence by horse and terribly
injured.
Michael Jordan sued Centralia, ILL.,,
for $1,000 for damages received on a
defective sidewalk and compromised
on 1925.
New Whiskey frauds have been
discovered in certain Kentucky dis
tilleries by which the managers Will
lose $4,000.
A Philadelphia man named Ernest
Kammy, yesterday shot his wife dead
and then attempted to kill himself.
lie will die.
The Postmaster at Flatbush, N. Y,
is in Jail on the charge of extracting
money from registered letters. He
has confessed.
Harry H. Allen, Secretary of the
Fourth Building and Loan Associa-
lion of Sedalia, is over S. 900 short in
his accounts.
President and Mrs. Cleveland ar
rived at Holland Patent, N. Y, Tues
day, and Wednesday attended the
celebration at Clinton.
While hurrying a kitchen fire at
Worcester, Mass, with kerosene, Mrs.
Hendrickson was probably fatally
burned by the explosion.
The Kentucky Methodist Confer
ence Committee has decided to re-
move the Wesleyan Female College
from Millersburg to Winchester.
Hon. Jas. &. Kennedy was wonton-
ly murder by a demented man in
Washington yesterday. He was un-
expectedly assaulted and stabbed to
death.
The European press discredit the
stories told of confidential meeting
IN the Isle of Jersey between the
German crown prince and the Count
Of Paris.
General Simon Cameron, the emf.
nent Pennsylvania Republican lead
err, now ninety years old, sailed for
Europe Wednesday morning on
pleasure tour.
A pitched battle occurred at
Youngstown, o., between railroad
employees and the police. 1t lasted
several minutes and resulted in vic
tory for the police.
Ex-Gov. Curtin and Gen. Pryor
make statements, the former denying
and the latter discrediting the story
attributed to jeff Davis by his alleged
writer, Scharf.
A fux epidemic has assumed
alarming proportions in Botetourt,
Roanoke, Bedford and Amherst coun-
ties, Va. The mortality has been
greatest among children.
1t was greatly feared that there
would be bloodshed in Paris Wednes-
day,and all Germans were ordered to
remain indoors. 1t was the anniversa-
ry of the fall of the Bastlle.
A steamer brings the news to San
Francisco that the excitement at Hon
olulo over the movement which effect
ed change in King Kalakaua's Cab
met has almost entirely subsidized.
Senator Cullom says he doesn't
think there will be an extra session
of Congress, though it would be bet
ter to have a meeting about October
and get through with the business
earlier.
w. o. Evans was assassinated near
his home in Barry county, Missouri.
IN his ante-mortem statement he
charges his brother-in-law with the
rhine. His brother-in- law denies
he charge.
The ceremonies in connection with
he opening of the summer schools
at Round Lake, near
Saratoga. Senator Evarts delivered
In address on "The National Value
If Education"